It's saddening scenes. That's the corner of the street i grew up on from 11 years old onwards, and my mum was one of the creators and diggers of the community garden too. Now there'll be a Tescos competing with a Co-op next door, a Spar 20 metres away, and a big Sainsburys 200 yards off. The people of Lewes Road really needed another mini supermarket with its glum standardisation of life greyly attached and its eternal promise to offer you nothing all that special. I mean, i don't have warm memories of the Esso that once lived there, but a garden, a tiny area of unused land taken and developed by the local community off of their own backs for pretty much everyone's good should be applauded and defended by the council.
